Arm or leg broken experiences

Hey guys , i never broke something before . I’m just curious about

• how old were you ?
• what happened
• what happened in the hospital ?
• did they cut or take your clothes off ? If yes what had to come off ?

Broken right arm age 8: Angry drunken foster parents. I spilled turpentine in the garage. Back to state custody once again. That's the begining of the story and the end of the story.

Wife broke her left femur at 50-something falling off a horse. Surgery put most of the hardware from aisle 6 at Home Depot into her leg to repair it. Screws, wires etc. Approx 5 days in the hospital and 2 weeks in transitional care. 8 weeks with no weight on the leg.

Broken ankle in three places when I was a toddler. Foot slipped into the wheel of my parents tandem.

Broke both wrists falling out of trees etc in my teens.

In my 30s. Fell of my bike, injured my knee (not bad) and broke my ankle. I ended up getting surgery. I spent a few days in hospital under painkillers after that.

For those of you who like enema stories. I got constipated (no pooing for 5 days, I think), they gave me oral laxatives and a suppository, no effect. I was then discharged. My wife tried giving me glycerin suppositories, to no avail, and ended up giving me an enema.

For the time my ankle was immobilized I had to get daily injections of blood thinners.

I was six and broke my collar bone. A bunch of us boys were playing “dead” which meant throwing yourself on the ground in some dramatic way like in the movies. I threw myself so hard I broke a bone. I went to the ER where they put me in a gown and then took x-rays. Then they put me in a cast (no T-braces in those days). I had to wear it for six weeks. It wasn't bad except for the itching. I carried around a long wood salad fork to use as a back scratcher. When they finally cut it off with one of those vibrating saws, they cut straight up my chest and I turned as white as the plaster cast.

I crashed my BMX bike at the age of 27 and broke both forearm bones in my wrist. The Doctor at the ER tried reducing the fracture but was unsuccessful. It hurt like nothing else. I had surgery with plate and screws 5 days later.

For the time my ankle was immobilized I had to get daily injections of blood thinners.

I had to do the same after ankle surgery - Lovenox injections in the subcutaneous tissue of my stomach. Had to do them myself to prevent blood clots. As I recall it was only for the first two weeks. Ankle was immobilized for approx 8 weeks.

@Rigel I think I got them for the whole duration, but it was quite a while ago and I may not recall that. I also had to get some blood work done once every few days to check for adverse effects.

@Pecan_nutjob That sounds more serious - like they put you on Coumadin and have to check blood for INR values (how you reposed to the drug) and constantly adjust the dosage.

@Rigel It was Lovenox. Rules for using drugs vary from country to country… perhaps here it's compulsory or strongly recommended to do these checks.

I broke my right arm when I was 3 fell off monkey bars at daycare. Broke my left leg in gymnastics age 4. Same daycare

Broke my right arm (I think) the day before my last day of fifth grade. I was trying to walk down a plastic slide and fell. My mom being a nurse knew the ER would refer her to an orthopedic surgeon so she just made an appointment with one the next day. So I got to spend a summer in a cast.

First time , Riding a spoiled green broke horse that put me into a fence at full gallop . broke my left arm , cast from my shoulder to my hand , Second time crashed my bike at or about 65 miles an hour into a brick wall , side ways glancing blow with rolling tangled with the bike . Broke left arm above the wrist , broke right arm just above the wrist {half cast} , Broke right leg below the knee , Walking across a well mateined lawn broke my right leg above the ankle .Just a year ago on my quad at or about 20 M.P.H. I stood up on the pegs to adjust my pants when my right leg went though the rear fender caught the back wheel . I was pulled off braking my right leg between the ankle and knee . I still had ahold of the right grip and as I went down it pulled the quad into a hard right turn where it glanced off a dirt bank and came around and ran over me again . All right quit laughing .

I have been busted up many times mostly from playing sports and having a broken wrist a broken collarbone two times is nothing that is appealing to discuss. Let's just put it this way I wish I didn't do it because to this day when the weather is just a certain way though them bones hurt

I've never broken an arm or leg, but I did fracture my foot on new years eve 2020 – was literally walking to a new years gathering, carrying a pack of beer, and stumbled on a bump in the pavement that was in the dark and just landed awkwardly – felt a pop in my foot followed by tons of pain, though somehow I still managed to regain my balance make it all the way inside the door to their couch. After icing and elevating it for a good hour+, it was getting more and more painful, so we went to the ER. I didn't have to get undressed or anything, they rolled up my pant leg and put a splint + ace bandage and gave me some crutches. A few days later had to get a walking boot.

-early 20s

-I'm clumsy.

-I went to the hospital, they wrapped my foot in bandages and connected me to a foot and ankle specialist who gave me a hard cast. I broke bones in that same foot years later.

I am that type that can't sit still so breaking a bone is torture. I did get one of those cool scooter things though!

Humph …..

I got nuthin'.

Broke my wrist last November. Was in a splint for 6 weeks.

My wrist still hurts at times and I have not yet recovered all my strength in it.

When I was around 9 or 10, I'd been given horseback riding lessons for a while already. While learning to jump over posts on one occasion, my horse reared up and I fell off. It didn't even really hurt except perhaps a bit to my pride … ha ha.

However I couldn't bend my left elbow. That did hurt when I tried, so my mother took me to the local hospital. After x-rays and all, a nurse announced that my elbow was broken. That shocked me and I actually started crying because I thought that it meant they were going to cut my arm off … ha ha.

My mother and nurse finally reassured me after asking why the sudden tears now, that there would be no amputation and I calmed down for the setting of the cast.

This happened at the beginning of summer and that meant no swimming for me that year except splashing about and taking care my cast did not get wet in the bathtub. Back then casts were set in actual plaster.

Aside from restricting my water activities, there was not much hardship, some itching of course, lots of signing the cast. It took a year or two for me to be able to bend my elbow all the way again, but there was never any residual pain. That is about all.

First time , Riding a spoiled green broke horse that put me into a fence at full gallop . broke my left arm , cast from my shoulder to my hand , Second time crashed my bike at or about 65 miles an hour into a brick wall , side ways glancing blow with rolling tangled with the bike . Broke left arm above the wrist , broke right arm just above the wrist {half cast} , Broke right leg below the knee , Walking across a well mateined lawn broke my right leg above the ankle .Just a year ago on my quad at or about 20 M.P.H. I stood up on the pegs to adjust my pants when my right leg went though the rear fender caught the back wheel . I was pulled off braking my right leg between the ankle and knee . I still had ahold of the right grip and as I went down it pulled the quad into a hard right turn where it glanced off a dirt bank and came around and ran over me again . All right quit laughing .

@nytwatch1 Your post made me think of Joe Btfsplk: The world's worst jinx from Al Capp's Li'l Abner comics. Joe had a perpetually dark rain cloud over his head.

Stay Safe!!

Oh boy…

2 y/o: Broke my arm while my dad was playing with me on the couch, he tossed me up and I hit the wall. Or so I was told! Plaster cast, cute pictures.

4 y/o: 4th of July. Fell off the monkey bars… My dad again! He said he had me, so I let go. He didn’t. Plaster cast on my whole leg, I scooted myself around backwards dragging my leg with me everywhere. Left white lines on all the patios and sidewalks. Cute pictures.

18 y/o: First ski trip to Keystone in Colorado. I’d been skiing a long time. We were skiing in some glades, my ski caught on a log buried in snow, I caught myself while holding my pole. Thumb bent back. Figured I just jammed it. Last day of trip my friend did something similar, whined about how it must be broken, we went to first aid, he got all the attention from the nurses, and it was just sprained.

Two weeks later, my “jammed thumb“ still wasn’t better. Got an x-ray, had an avulsion fracture (broken where the tendon attaches to the bone and would lead to that piece of bone separating from the rest of it). Two months in a big fat cast to keep my wrist and thumb completely immobilized. Medically, a big non-event.

29 y/o: My last trip to Keystone on Colorado. Powdered my knee.

Ski patrol had to take me down the mountain on a sled. In that same first aid building from 10 years earlier, I was laid on an exam table, my leg was bent about 70 degrees. I must have been in shock… there was a massive bump below my knee, the doctor poked and prodded it, I felt nothing. “Has this lump always been there?” “I … don’t think so …” An x-ray was taken. Soon the pain began. I asked for drugs. Morphine was provided, and I was happy. My fiancé was shown the x-ray.

“What’s that?”

”Well, it used to be a knee…”

Avulsion of the tibial plateau (top of the tibia), torn ACL, torn meniscus.

Got an ambulance ride to Vail Valley Medical Center in a snowstorm through the mountains. A very long surgery the next day, I got two metal plates and 15 pins and screws for souvenirs. 12 days ago in a wonderful hospital - apparently it was a popular destination for professional athletes who also needed orthopedic surgery! If you ever plan on destroying your knee, definitely do it in Vail!

(this feels long…I’ll write up the rest of the hospital stay - let’s face it, that’s the part you really want to hear about - in another post)

-g

I tried, I really did … but I just write too much to fit it into a post in a discussion thread.

If you're interested in my powdered knee and my fortnight in Vail, I've put it into a blog post – enjoy!

https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=blog;ox=showpage;pg=7053

-g

I've never broken an arm or a leg yet…thank goodness. When younger I wanted to break a bone, but I am one fall or stumble away from the possibility. Age has given me wisdom to know such a thing could be an inconvenient thing.

I have broken a finger (and cracked a couple ribs). The joint looks a bit messed up, but causes me no issue.

I have broken a finger (and cracked a couple ribs). The joint looks a bit messed up, but causes me no issue.

From my experience, cracked ribs hurt far more than a broken elbow I once had. A few years ago, two cyclists whilst busy smartphoning, crashed into me while I was on a sidewalk, sandwiching me in front and back. Off they went after cursing me for being in their way, the louts.

My ribs hurt seriously enough for some 2 months.

From my experience, cracked ribs hurt far more than a broken elbow. A few years ago, two cyclists whilst busy smartphoning, crashed into me while I was on a sidewalk. Off they went after cursing me for being in their way. Hurt seriously enough for some 2 months.

That’s my experience. The one time I went snowboarding I board caught in the snow and I was thrown down hard on my front half. It knocked the wind out of me and cracked a couple of ribs. Every time I breathed those ribs reminded me with pain that they didn’t want me to snowboard ever again.

At 82 I haven't broken anything yet. I got hit by a car when I was 80, I went up on the hood because I felt that was a better choice than inspecting the underside.

Broke my foot at 13 in the school gym. Mom took me to the doctor, got a cast. (nowadays it would be a boot for that fracture)

At 16 had a knee injury playing football, mom took me to an orthopedic doc who needed to drain my knee…. In order to do so my pants needed to come off. The female nurses were joking about it and my shirt covered some of my tighty whities. I think this was the last time my mom saw me in underwear.

I fell on the ice and had a serious dislocation of my shoulder. Since it was winter I was wearing a heavy sweater over my shirt over my t-shirt, and a winter coat. In the hospital I was unable to lift my arm but they were able to just pull off my coat. My sweater had to be cut off. My shirt they were able to unbutton and slip off. My t-shirt had to be cut off.

My arm was completely out of its socket and it was the worst pain I ever have experienced. I was 40.

@gflin oh my goodness and they call me a walking disaster for falling of my bike twice lol